As you may or may not know, I am a hot dog fanatic. You will find me at my happiest munching on a Nathan's famous at Saratoga Race track while waiting to see if my trifecta will hit (see here for more on this). I usually prefer our own local Capital Region hot dog styles (see Capital Region Hot Dog Micro-Region), but recently I saw something on TV about the Chicago Style hot dog. After a little research I found that the Vienna Beef company's products pretty much define this particular hot dog variation.
The online store sells a handy "Condiment Pack" consisting of celery salt, sport peppers, Chicago relish, and Plochman's yellow mustard. This was 34.95$ shipped.
The other components of the Chicago dog (the actual wurst, sliced tomato, onion, and poppyseed bun) I will have to procure myself. I am not sold on this concept, I am a hot dog minimalist (mustard, bun, dog.), but we shall see. I am feeling under the weather this weekend so this might have to wait until I am up to another cookout. I also need to try to find a proper Chicago style hot dog sausage. We shall see.
Mr. Dave,
ReplyDeleteYou may have already tried them, but we do have a Chicago style vendor locally...
http://nippershotdogs.food.officelive.com/default.aspx
Sometimes it's more fun to make your own. But sometimes it's nice to lean back and let other people do it for you.
Happy eating.
Yeah, I saw something about Nippers somewhere. I really was more interested in the Sport Peppers to tell you the truth. I really kind of want to make the "Mother in Law" sandwich (see below link), but I don't know if I will get it together to do that. So I thought I would try making the hot dogs too.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tamaletrail.com/chicago_connection.shtml
what are sport peppers?
ReplyDeleteMr. Dave,
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to do it yourself, you also need a pickle slice (dill, I believe - maybe someone from Chi-town can speak to the variety.)
Sport peppers are little pickled hot peppers (not that hot, but yummy on a dog)
WHERE CAN I FIND A CHICAGO STYLE HOT DOG AROUND HERE OTHER THAN NIPPERS??
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